Marlene
Dumas
Marlene
Dumas
Dumas
A Dutch painter born in South Africa, Marlene Dumas has been working for 30 years to depict the human figure in its starkest form. Her work moves along on a ridge line. "My art,” she says, “lies between the tendency of pornography to show everything and the tendency of eroticism to hide what it’s all about.”
It addresses sensitive issues, starting with men and women haunted by their feelings. Their painted faces reflect suffering, ecstasy, fear or desire. Second, her work focuses on thorny social and cultural topics, such as gender and racial segregation. Made up of pictures from newspapers, masterpieces of art history, films or Polaroids of people around her, her spellbinding portraits usually have no background. The outcome is raw, moving paintings.
Dumas' works in the Pinault Collection were first shown at the 2007 "Sequence 1" exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
It addresses sensitive issues, starting with men and women haunted by their feelings. Their painted faces reflect suffering, ecstasy, fear or desire. Second, her work focuses on thorny social and cultural topics, such as gender and racial segregation. Made up of pictures from newspapers, masterpieces of art history, films or Polaroids of people around her, her spellbinding portraits usually have no background. The outcome is raw, moving paintings.
Dumas' works in the Pinault Collection were first shown at the 2007 "Sequence 1" exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
